Anyone want some tomatoes?

[kemaji]

Seriously, y'all....we have tomatoes coming out of our ears.  I planted two tomato plants and after a bit of a slow start, they are making up for lost time.  I have Bill foisting tomatoes off on any of his co-workers that even look in his direction, we cannot keep up with the production!

We have an air advisory here today, and it smells like

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[emilybronte]

I'm sooo jealous you are overflowing with tomatoes! I'll have to check out that cookbook, too - cans and jars are one of my biggest problems with cooking in the slow cooker. Have you ever tried using a timer? My mom plugs her slow cooker into one of those timers that plugs into the wall and then has the slow cooker turn off and on at the instructed times and that seems to work well for her.

[sheartm7]

Funny, both my mom and MIL have also had a crazy amount of tomatoes this summer. They don't know what to do with them all!

[quartercentury]

I am jealous of your tomatoes. Our plants all died in flooding earlier in the summer. Sniff sniff.

[frozenmoments]

My Uncle has learned his lesson about tomatoes this year. at the beginning of spring he started planning his new "garden" adventure and lets just say he totally over planted. 10 peppers, **20** tomato plants!!!!, 6 cucumber, 5 zucchini, etc.... dad also planted about 6 tomato plants and ILs have probably close to 12 different tomato plants, so we didn't plant any at all this year and still have WAAAAAY too many tomatoes around our house from all the family trying to get rid of theirs.

I am so glad that the air is working in my office today. It was torture yesterday here!

[elaine77]

This is a great post! We got a wonderful slow cooker as a wedding gift, and for the life of me, I can't make one good meal in it. I might pick up that gourmet cookbook you recommended. A big part of the problem is we don't eat meat, and have really cut back on poultry significantly. So that leaves veggies, beans, and seafood. Do you think it's worth investing in that book? Where else would you recommend looking for recipes, given my limited choices! ;)

[kemaji]

Most of the recipes in this cookbook have meat or a meat-based stock of some sort. I'm sure you could adapt them, but it might be easier to find a veggie one instead. Or, check out this one and see if it is worth buying. I'd bet you could substitute chicken in most of the meat dishes.